Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-12
Application for . Patent
Notice No. LA.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.


Notice is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Company, by John Brown,
its President and General Manager, whose |
post Office address Is Banner, Boise coun-
ty, Idaho territory, has made application
for United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
in Banner Mining District, Boise County,
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun
| bred $4,000 linear feet Of the lode, and sur.
/ face ground six hundred 600 feet wide,
being Lot No. 81 A and acres of non.
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
for mill site, being Lot No. 81 B, and
described In the field notes and plat of the
official survey on file In this office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 30
minutes East, as follows, in effect substan-
TALLY and correctly:
Said mining claim commencing at the
stake or post on which is posted the no.
tice of relocation, at point 100 feet in a
westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
said lode, known as the old Banner shaft
or discovery shalt, and running thence in
an easterly direction 1900 feet TO a similar
stake or post on the line of said lode,
marked EAST Center Stake" together
with 600 feet in width the entire length of
said claim, being 800 feet in width ON each
side from the center or middle Of said
, lode at The surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows. In
effect: Commencing AT point 1850 feet
from United States mineral monument
. No |, In q direction north 81 degrees, 06
minutes east therefrom, the property be-
ing on unsurveyed land--being cor No
, |, running thence south IA degrees, "a
minutes east 600 feet 10 post marked
: ~ W. being cor. No. 2, and passing
. through, at a distance Of 500 feet from the
original starting point, the west end cen
ter post or stake on which Ia posted the
, original notice Of relocation by the FL
mira Silver Mining Company, thence
north n degrees % minutes east, 1900 feet
to post marked rs. E." being cor. No
3, thence north IA degrees, 04 minutes
west across the east end center post oil
: stake 800 feet to post marked IN. f.,
4, being cor. No. 4, thence south II degrees
23 minutes west 1900 feet to q post mark
5 cd IN. W. which is the place of begin
ming, containing an area of 20 59-l0t
" acres. This location also covers and in
: cludes what Is known as the Big Crop
pings, and said mine OF Banner lode be
- lug situated about thirty miles In a north
easterly direction from Idaho City, ant
about one mile In u northeasterly direc
! ton from the steam quartz mill owned b,
IS the Elmira Silver Mining Company. AL
SO the Mill SITE on which stands tn
Banner mill, and known as the Banne
mill site, located in triangular shape
immediately above what was formerl,
a called Wolverine Gulcb, and Smith
Fork, and between them, described as fol
u lows; Beginning at a point 53.36 fee
from United States mineral monumen
g No. 1, in direction therefrom south 3
n deg. 81 minutes east, thence running sout
!. 20 degrees, 10 minutes east 574.5 feet 10
/" post, cor, No. 4, thence north 50 degrees
03 minutes vest 200 feet 10 post at th
10 junction of the right fork of Bear cree
=. with the main creek, cor No. l, runnin
= thence north rs degrees 50 minutes eat
~ l40 feet 10 post, cor. No. 2, thence mort
IS 81 degrees east 275.5 feet to post, cor n,
n 3, which is the place of beginning; en-
= bracing an area of Ave acres The mort
line of said mill site being 3,9s07 feet tii
10 tani from the northwest corner, or co
No. of said Lot No. 81 A, the Bannt
lode surface ground, in direction sout
30 degrees 10 minutes 30 seconds Yves
thereirom all corners of clam being a
SO marked L. s L. 81 A, aud all corner
-- of mill site marked U. s. l.. 81 B. In add
ton Ia No. of corner
"a The said mining claim and mill site b
10 ing Of record In the Office of the Count
N Recorder of said mining district, at idah
IS City, in Boise County, Idaho Territor
n. The nearest known location being the 81
rs yer Chief lode or claim, which joins Il
We SAID Banner lode and claim on the west
10 ANY aud all persons claiming adverse
All any portion Of the said Banner lode mi
ct ing claim or surface ground, or the mi
N. site aforesaid, are required TO file their a
ho verse claims thereto with the Register
{ I the United States Land Office, at Boi
DE City, Idaho Territory, within the six
days publication hereof, or they will
barred by virtue of the provisions of Il